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VMware Player is a virtualization product from VMWare that is free for personal use.

VMware Player is a streamlined desktop virtualization application that runs one or more operating systems on the same computer without rebooting.

See more at product website.

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VMWare Player vs VMWare Workstation

Can anyone give me a simple comparison of those two? It is hard to get the idea from their web site.
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Fresh new session for rstudio-server

I am running rstudio-server on a virtualised (vmware-player) ubuntu machine, and processing lots of data into the ram. I find that after some inactivity that the session suspends the data. The problem is that it takes a VERY long time to resume this…
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Clone option not visible in Vmware player

I am new to this vmware player and am working on version 'workstation 9.0 virtual machine'. Now I have made a virtual machine and I want to clone it. But when I right click on the machine which I created there is no option of clone coming in it.
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vmhgfs-fuse at boot with VMware Windows 8.1 host and Ubuntu 16.04 guest

I am using the VMware Player with a Windows 8.1 host and an Ubuntu 16.04 guest and I have a shared folder shared_folder that I want to mount to a specific location at boot: /shared_folder. I can manually do that using the command vmhgfs-fuse…
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adb can list devices but adb shell/logcat doesn't work

Short version adb devices can list device, but adb shell or adb logcat just hang and don't work. Long version Here are various command outputs. /* system info */ $ uname -a Linux ubuntu-vm 3.8.0-19-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 17 18:16:28 UTC 2013…
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How to Simulate Pinch on BlackBerry 10 Simulator ?

I am developing a project using the Native SDK for BlackBerry 10. I am using BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha Simulator for testing purposes. I can't seem to simulate a pinch event, and did some searching just to find out that this is not implemented yet in…
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Cannot connect the virtual device sata0:1 because no corresponding device is available on the host

Cannot connect the virtual device sata0:1 because no corresponding device is available on the host. The error pops up when I enable the host/guest share and map the drive. I have installed the VMware Tools, etc. I tried to delete and then add back…
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Windows Phone Emulator error, Hyper-V components not running, Windows 8.1 hosted in VMWare Player

Environment: Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit as host o/s Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64-bit hosted in VMWare Player (current version) Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone (Update 4) I get the following error when trying to run a very simple phone…
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Automate Blackberry 10 simulator actions

I'm using the VMWare Player and the Blackberry 10 simulator image; I need to do some unit/integration tests automatically. I know I can use the VIX api to spin up a new Simulator and load the Blackberry image. What I would love to be able to do is…
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using VMWare Player 5, how can I access a web server running in a VM via an external machine?

Win7 PC running Rails in an Ubuntu VM via VMWare Player. I'm working on a site and would like to show it to a friend who's outside my network. I found this blog post, which got me very close:…
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Error "context mismatch in svga_sampler_view_destroy" running GUI programs on Ubuntu in a VM

I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on a VMware workstation player VM on windows 10. When I run some GUI programs (have observed this on Spyder and Chromium) am getting the message "context mismatch in svga_sampler_view_destroy" is repeatedly printed to the…
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Vix vmrun doesn't work with VMware Player

I am trying to run a batch file on my virtual machine through VIX vmrun. For starters it doesn't even want to start. When I try this in the command line: vmrun -T player start "D:\myUser\VMWare\Windows7\Windows 7.vmx" It says: Unable to connect…
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rotating the view for android x86 on VMWare

How to I rotate the display view on android x86 installed in VMWare? Pressing Ctrl+F12 rotated it so that the back and home buttons went to the left of the screen, but now pressing Ctrl+F11 or Ctrl+F12 only keep it in landscape mode, with either the…
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How to push/show notifications from the guest OS to the host OS in VMware player

I am wondering if there is any way to get VMware Player to blink or show a message in the window title or perform some similar notifying action whenever there is some activity inside the guest operating system. I run a Windows VM on a Linux box. If…
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Error installing vmware-tools 9.9 after upgrade to linux-image-3.13.0-46

After having upgraded my guest ubuntu to linux-image-3.13.0-46 I got an error install vmware-tools and I cannot share folders any more. I ran vmware player 7.0.0 build-2305329 both in Windows 8 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host machine and during the…
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